Because as juvy’s they have to according to laws in most states. just dotting I’s and crossing T’s. And hoping that the eval will come out that he is nuts, so they can get off with a few years in a mental hospital...at our expense. Housing them as juvy’s cost twice as much as adults, and TN has only about 200 juvy beds.
We truly need to revise these laws to read guilty by reason of insanity, ‘cure’ the insanity, and then incarcerate them for their sentence. Would put a stop to a lot of this Hinkley BS.
The whole premise of using “insanity” as a defense is insane. It needs to go away. No one in their right mind commits murder: they are evil, that’s why they do it.
I found it interesting in the Gifford’s shooting, that Jared Lee Loughner was found “unable to stand trial” because of him being diagnosed for schizophrenia; this coming after he demonstrated before and during the shooting, that he knew the difference between right and wrong. Why would someone say “I hope I make it out alive”, if you didn’t know you were up to evil? Why would someone employ some degree of stealth to get close to a target?
The whole insanity defense is insane.